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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Typically the horsepower we measure in cars is the engine power. The angular velocity in that equation is the engine RPM, and the power is the rate of work (force over distance) that engine is capable of outputting at a given RPM. Because it’s based on the engine RPM, this doesn’t depend on the gear ratio.

    When we talk about torque, it can be measured either at the crank (engine torque) or wheels (wheel torque). Wheel torque represents the amount of force applied by the wheel to the road, and depends on the gear - a lower gear will output more torque at a given RPM than a higher one. This will result in greater acceleration.
















  • We started around 2.5 years, and followed the “Oh Crap!” potty training book. We went straight from diapers to nothing (no pull ups, even at night), and it took less than a week. The idea is to take a few days off where you can watch them constantly, go without pants, and catch their “cues” right before they go and run them to the potty. Once they are doing that consistently (usually after a day or so), add pants and repeat, but give them a chance to decide to go themselves. They won’t want to go in their pants/on the floor. More than 1 or 2 accidents, go back to day one.

    Sounds like you’re close, but just need to be consistent and maybe do a bit of a reset, to make it clear that going in the potty isn’t an optional, once in a while thing, but the only option going forward. Not sure about your day care situation, but the book recommends against pull ups as it feels just like a diaper, and makes it hard to be consistent.